Let's talk about trade balance

A few days ago, Macron from France had a pleasant interaction with university students in Chengdu, but that didn't prevent him from returning to France and changing his tune, demanding that China increase investments to balance trade, otherwise threatening to impose tariffs. The first item on the agenda for the important meeting in December is: better coordination of domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles. The international economic and trade struggle is definitely not a contradiction with the U.S. Over the past few years, Dongda's industrial upgrade has exported more high value-added products to the world, directly snatching a large number of orders from Europe, the United States, and Japan.

Germany previously called for de-Chinafication, but as a result, companies have flocked to China for production. The reason is simple: under various pressures, local industries in Europe have completely lost their industrial foundations, expensive energy, and disruptions in the supply chain have left their once-advantageous automobile industry powerless against electric vehicles. If they can't compete, they can only join in; if they don't come to Dongda, they will face complete disaster. Now Europeans are complaining that China sells everything to Europe, but China almost never buys European products, making trade impossible.

Reports in the news state that this year's trade surplus has reached 1 trillion USD. Then, some anxious economists start to voice their concerns, saying that if this continues and we compete with the U.S. and the West for high-end manufacturing markets, serious problems will arise. Back then, we couldn't produce anything and watched helplessly as imperialism robbed and dumped, emptying half of China's thousands of years of accumulation, leaving behind a destitute China. Why could we still live our lives? Now that the situation has changed, can they not live their lives?

I have been saying in my public account that we must oppose colonialism because these imperialists have been using various despicable means to plunder the world.

When they talk about trade balance, doesn't Macron feel guilty? France takes at least 800 billion USD from Africa every year; Africa's resources have become stepping stones for the romantic lives of the French. We are just conducting business honestly; if you can't compete with Chinese products in a market-oriented operation, you start playing double standards. It is only natural for you to exploit others with your advantages, while we work hard to produce more competitive products that your people love to use—this is a sin? Everyone talks about equality; if France were to cut off its 800 billion USD income from Africa for a year, wouldn't that money go to Africans, who would then spend it on Chinese goods and building better homes?

In 2024, China's exports to France are only over 40 billion USD, which is less than 5% of the wealth that France has plundered from Africa. So how should the trade balance be calculated? It cannot be determined by these imperialists. If we are talking about balance, it should be calculated on a global scale, collectively coordinated. Isn't that the point? The anti-colonial movement has developed to this point, and Dongda's exports to ASEAN and Africa are soaring. The world's population exceeds 8 billion, yet the population of consumer countries is less than 1 billion. Aren't the remaining people willing to consume? It's just that the wealth has been pocketed by the so-called consumer countries through various means; having money and a willingness to consume is pointless.

Today, I read an article written by an American think tank that projected China's situation in 2035. The article harshly criticized Dongda's unwillingness to distribute money to promote consumption, claiming that Dongda's current focus on developing high-end manufacturing is a gamble, and the likely outcome will be a rich country with a weak populace, sluggish internal consumption, and various pressures from the world due to Dongda's dumping and trade imbalance. This reminds me of the century-long history of humiliation; why did imperialism not care about the trade imbalance with Third World countries back then? Because their advantages were sufficient.

Now they can still get away with complaints and various schemes, and there is only one reason for that: our strength is still insufficient, and the level of our advancement does not crush them enough to make them behave and take a pragmatic attitude toward the real world. When we become strong enough to re-establish a world order, eliminate the exploitation of imperialism, and ensure that the remaining 6 billion people in the world have consumption abilities, why should we care about the demands of that less than 1 billion?

So you see, why we must firmly support Third World countries is not to export ideology; Dongda has always respected the will of the people of each country. However, with our strong productive forces, we ultimately focus on how to sell Chinese manufacturing better.

Helping others is helping ourselves. By helping colonies break free from imperialist control, they gain more consumption ability and can buy more Chinese products. With Dongda's country construction as a model, even a poor nation like Rwanda wants to live a quality life in order. We help them establish themselves, and they help us absorb productive capacity; this is a positive cycle, isn't it great? Originally, imperialism played the game of using military force for commerce. When commerce couldn't beat us, they resorted to military strikes; over 100 years ago, they did just that. In recent years, these people have also thought about it, but unfortunately, their military strength is inadequate, so they have to resort to other means covertly.

In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are mere illusions. Ultimately, resolving trade balance comes down to one thing: enhancing absolute strength. Anyway, they pride themselves on being high-end individuals; whatever you do, they won't be satisfied unless we revert to the Qing Dynasty or the warlord era of the Republic of China, competing to flatter imperialism. But is that possible? So you see, which economist with a distressed expression shouts for trade balance, just spit on them and move on. Those who say such things are either foolish and bad or both foolish and bad. In short, just do it.